GCARD2 meeting on the Dublin Process: Enhancing the partnership between CAADP and CGIAR

The ‘Dublin process’ initiative aims to deepen alignment and collaboration between Africa’s agricultural research, extension and education programs and the research programs of the CGIAR, to facilitate agricultural transformation in Africa.

Karen Brooks, Director of the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions and Markets and member of the Dublin Process Steering Committee, comments on the main outcomes of this meeting: " The meeting highlighted several concrete efforts underway to move the process forward: a memorandum of understanding to be signed between the African Union Commission and the CGIAR Consortium, the Science Agenda for African Agriculture, the use of a Mapping and Alignment Tool to identify and link all ongoing initiatives under the CGIAR Research Programs in Africa, setting up joint work between CAADP and the CGIAR institutions to develop and implement the Technology Platform called for by the G8… Solid foundations for programmatic alignment and collaboration between CAADP and CGIAR are being designed, and I am confident that this process will make an important contribution to agricultural transformation in Africa.”

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The CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) leads action-oriented research to equip decisionmakers with the evidence required to develop food and agricultural policies that better serve the interests of poor producers and consumers, both men and women. PIM combines the resources of CGIAR centers and numerous international, regional, and national partners.